Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-05-27
Signing Bills.

Since the adjournment of the Leg |
islature Governor Beaver has signed
the following bills:
An act to punish false pretenses in
obtaining registration of cattle and
other animals, and to punish giving
false pedigrees; to provide civil rights
for all people, regardless of race or
color; amending the act regulating
the admission of attorneys and coun-
sellors at law to practice in the sever
al courts of this Commonwealth; to
anable managers of work houses to
purchase additional land for agrlcul.
tural purposes; to give preference OF
appointment or employment to hon
orably discharged soldiers, sailors and
mariners who fought for the Union
cause in the late war; authorizing the
issuing of execution upon judgments
for the purpose of selling personal
property of the debtor after five years
from the entry of such Judgment with
out previous writ of scire taclas to
revive the same; extending the au.
thority and Jurisdiction of Justices OF
the Peace and to the several burgess
ses of this Commonwealth; to provide
for the care and preservation OF the
monuments marking the boundary
lines of this Commonwealth; relat-
ing to costs and the manner OF COM
putting milage in certain cases; sup
plemeut to an act providing for the
selection OF site and erection of
State hospital for injured persons Oh
the anthracite coal regions, in the
counties of Schuylkill, Carbon Dauph-
in, northumberland and Columbia,
etc providing for the payment OF
costs in criminal cases by the proper
county; providing for night watch
man for the State Library; to extend
the minimum school term to six
months; authorizing the courts OF
quarter sessions to make orders about
the payment of costs in road cases;
regarding the mutilating of books,
maps, stationery, &c ; to regulate the
employment of labor, requiri ng two
weeks notice of intended abandon
ment of work to be given the employ
er, who is also obliged to give simi-
lar notice on intended discharge; pro-
viding for the semi-monthly payment
of wage-workers; to repeal the Lenox
road law, in Susquehanna, before this
Legislature for fifty years; repeating
the act increasing the pay OF sheriifs
and iailors of Lebanon county; re-
pealing the act relating to road
bridges hereafter to be constructed
on the Juniata and Susquehanna
rivers; enlarging the competency OF
witnesses; repeating the act to au-
thorize the court of common pleas OF
LuZerne county to appoint auditors
in certain cases; repeating the section
of the act to provide for the erecting
of pounds. doing away with the old
fence requirements; empowering cities
to take and hold donations of money,
books, real or personal property for
the purpose OF free libraries and au-
thorizing appropriations; authorizing
the binding Of any orphan to any city
to be made by mother, guardian or
next friendj for the protection of Ger
man carp ia public lakes or steams!
amending the game law so as to pro-
hibit the killing Of quail or Virginia
partridge between December 18th and
October 18th, providing penalty OF
ten dollars for every violation of the
act; to prevent the adulteration of
candy or confectionery; making the
carrying on of the business of detec-
tives without Q license misdemeanor;
authorizing the trustees, treasurer or
other proper officers of any church,
congregation, presbytery or other
church organization to abandon bury
ing grounds and sell the same ip fee
clear Of ali restriction; sppropriating
the tax on dogs to the support Of
public libraries in boroughs; making
the breaking into cars felony; secur.
ing to laborers the benft of the ex,
emption laws and to prevent the as:
signment of claims for the purpose OF
securing their collection against labor
ers outside the State; to provide fol-
the institution of proceedings in
equity by process of foreign attach
ment; authorizing marriage licenses
to be applied for before justices of the
peace and aldermen; authorizing
county treasurers to charge and de-
duct commissions from school, road
and all ether municipal taxes collect
ed and paid over by them TO ths
proper authorities; providing punish
ment for persons stealing lumber Oh
banks of rivers and streams; to au
thorize an appeal from the assessment
of the amount to be paid by persons
desirous of using a private road; tc
authorize certain foreign corporation
to purchase certain real estate at ju
dioial sales and to hold and convey
the same under Gel tain conditions
regulating the method of the choice
of directors in certain corporations O
the FIRST class.